Literacy is one of the demographics in Civilization 5. How is it calculated? How do you compare two civilizations via this statistic? Are you able to tell how advanced a civ is compared to you by comparing your relative Literacy ratings?

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It's the percentage of the total technologies you've researched, as long as you have writing, otherwise it's always 0. Note that what follows is not my research, I found this on the CivFanatics forums: